Improvement in barrels, tanks, and casks for transporting acids and petroleum



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

JAMES B. DAVENPORT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BARRELS, TANKS, AND CASKS FR TRANSPURTING ACIDS AND PETRULEUM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,438, dated August 29, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. DAVENPORT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an iinprovementin cylinders and tanks for transporting petroleum, sulphuric acid, and other acids in bulk, by rail or otherwise.

Sulphuric and other acids are now transported about the country in vessels made of glass and packed with straw, or other packing material, in wooden boxes, and are called carboys. They are very bulky in proportion to their capacity, which is very limited, and add greatly to the cost of transportation of acids, inasmuch as these vesvels have to be returned from the consumer to the manufacturer empty. Petroleum, both crude and reiined, is, to a great extent, transported from different points in the country to others in tanks andcylinders, made of wood and iron, placed upon cars or other vehicles. If these tanks and cylinders which are not now suitable for containing sulphuric acid and other acids, on account of the chemical action of the acids, can be adapted to the transportation of sulphur-ic acid and other acids, they will be able to travel both ways filled, whereas now they are obliged to go from the consumer of petroleum back to the producer empty. Oarboys for acid can thus be dispensed with, and in this way the cost of transportation of both petroleum and sulphuric acid and other acids be greatly diminished.

My invention is designed as an improvement upon barrels, tanks, or casks for transporting acids, petroleum, and other such fluids; and to this end it consists in lining such receptacles with rolled sheet-lead, the edges of which are burned together so as to form the lining in one piece, said lining being retainedin position inside of the receptacle by means of arms attached upon its outside, which enter slots or openings formed in the barrel.

In the drawing hereto annexed, the iigure represents a cask provided with the improved lining.

A represents a tank or barrel, which may be made of any desired form and of any suitable material, such as wood or metal. B is the lining, formed of rolled sheet-lead or other material that will resist the action of acids, petroleum, or other like substances. O O are arms, of lead or other metal, burned or otherwise fastened to the outer surface of the lining by solder or rivets, said arms being designed to enter slots or openings D D formed in the sides and top ofthe receptacle, in such a manner asnot only to support the lining but to cause it always to adhere to the inner surface of the barrel or cylinder. The arms O C are of a length sufficient to pass entirely through the sides of and heads of the metal or wooden cask or vessel, and be bent down and nailed in position when the vessel is of wood, or burned or riveted when the vessel is of iron or other such material. The edges of the sheet or sheets of the metal constituting the lining are burned together, thus making the lining of one entire piece when finished. A barrel or cask thus constructed is readily adapted for storing away and transporting sulphuric acid and the like, as the lining will resist the action of such chemicals.

l do not broadly claim lining barrels with metal, as such is not new; but

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to securev by Letters Patent, is-

The lining B, having its edges united together, and provided with arms or supporting-pieces G O arranged inside of abarrel or cask and secured in position, in the manner and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: JAS. B. DAVENPORT.

JOHN S. DAVENPORT, J AivLEs T. ALLEN. 

